Berkeley County WV Archives Biographies.....Gates, Horatio 
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Author: Henry Howe

Gen. Gates, of whom the prediction of Gen. Lee was verified, "that his northern
laurels would be covered with southern willow," was, after the disastrous battle
of Camden, suspended from military command until 1782, when the great scenes of
the war were over. Gates was one of the infamous cabal who designed to supplant
Washington: but he lived to do justice to the character of that great man.

After the war, Gates lived about seven year on his plantation in Virginia, the
remainder of his life he passed near New York city. In 1800, he was elected to
the legislature of that state by the anti-federal party. He died in 1806, aged
78 years. "A few years before his death, he generously gave freedom to his
slaves, making provision for the old and infirm, while several testified their
attachment to him by remaining in his family. In the characteristic virtue of a
planter's hospitality, Gates had no competitor, and his reputation may well be
supposed to put this virtue to a hard test. He had a handsome person, and was
gentlemanly in his manners, remarkably courteous to all, and carrying good humor
sometimes beyond the nice limit of dignity." Both Lee and Gates were natives of
England, and all three, Lee, Gates, and Stephens, had command of Virginia troops.


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From Henry Howe's 1845 Historical Collections of Virginia

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